Bumpless pipe dreams encode Gr\"obner geometry of Schubert polynomials
Abstract
In their study of infinite flag varieties, Lam, Lee, and Shimozono (2021) introduced bumpless pipe dreams in a new combinatorial formula for double Schubert polynomials. These polynomials are the TxT-equivariant cohomology classes of matrix Schubert varieties and of their flat degenerations. We give diagonal term orders with respect to which bumpless pipe dreams index the irreducible components of diagonal Gr\"obner degenerations of matrix Schubert varieties, counted with scheme-theoretic multiplicity. This indexing was conjectured by Hamaker, Pechenik, and Weigandt (2022). This result establishes that bumpless pipe dreams are dual to and as geometrically natural as classical pipe dreams, for which an analogous anti-diagonal theory was developed by Knutson and Miller (2005).
Cite
@article{arxiv.2108.08370,
title = {Bumpless pipe dreams encode Gr\"obner geometry of Schubert polynomials},
author = {Patricia Klein and Anna Weigandt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.08370},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
We are very grateful to Matt Larson for supplying the argument to fix a crucial lemma (now Lemma 5.2) on which the main theorem rests and for which we'd previously given a faulty proof. In addition to having an incorrect proof, our previous version of the lemma also had an unneeded hypothesis. Dropping that hypothesis has allowed us to give a more streamlined argument in the paper's main theorem